Reddit reviews Judgment Day

Sounds like this might be it:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S1LS7K?btkr=1


>a God-given breakthrough in engine design allows a 20-year-old religious cult, the Fellowship of the Faithful, to launch a spacecraft, Rising Savior, from the town of Christ's Home, Calif. In two years, the Faithful achieve a near-monopoly on space, threatened only by a counter-cult of blood-sacrificing Luciferians led by Manuel Crow, a former funeral parlor magnate who has "served the master of the underworld" for the same two decades. To escape Crow and the thousand-year Satanic reign he's engineering from his seat in Congress, Faithful leader Ira Breitling shepherds his flock to Planet America, where they battle for humanity's very soul.

Judgement Day by James David.

Pretty awful stuff, and I don't often get ahold of books that make me say that. The premise was okay; Christian group receives God given space travel technology in order to find a new planet. The forces of evil attempt to block them using politics, media, and military.

What made the book suck was how terrible the protagonists were as human beings, and how poorly written the bad guys were. Honestly, I couldn't tell if the author was being satirical or not because the Christians were such horrible people. They forced marriage on young teens, segregated and abandoned thousands of black people in space to preserve homogeneity, aimed meteorites at Earth killing millions and bringing on the Apocalypse, and held people prisoner indefinitely.

The book was preachy, but instead of inspiring faith, it made Christians look exactly how the worst atheists describe them: close minded, brutal, sexist, racist, bigots. Did I mention the black people decided to reinstitute slavery because "Whites and blacks can never get along"? Yeah.

I finished this book even after I realized what garbage it was because everyone loves a good train wreck. If you'd like to lose some IQ points, please, read it. I think I should note that I don't identify as Christian, and folks of that religion may like it a bit more...or not


[http://www.amazon.com/Artemis-Awakening-Jane-Lindskold/dp/076533710X/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404224660&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=jane+lyndskold](Artemis Awakening) b y Jane Lindskold was fantastic. I realize as I type that both Judgement Day and Artemis Awakening are probably sci fi not fantasy, but Lindskold is primarily a fantasy writer.

Artemis Awakening is about an explorer trying to find the pleasure planet of an empire that crumbled 500 yrs prior. The residents of Artemis are all genetically altered to suit roles that made their planet the perfect getaway for the empires elite. In the 500 yrs that Artemis has been left alone, a lot has changed. The intrepid explorer, now marooned, has to navigate a complex society that craves, fears, worships, and despises the outsiders that designed them and their environment.


Edit: not sure why link format is so fucked on the 2nd link. Can't see what I did wrong.